This paper studies school quality in the context of Norwegian compulsory schooling. I demonstrate that even when lagged … achievement is not observed, it is possible to construct informative value-added (VA) indicators of persistent school quality by …-experiments using variation from student mobility and changes in neighborhood school assignments indicate that the differences captured …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …

model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the … ordinary least squares and lottery-based instrumental variables estimates of VAM parameters. The hybrid estimation strategy … provides a general recipe for combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental estimates. While still biased, hybrid school …

The role of schooling and school quality in the economy has become very confused, in part because of attempts to argue … different positions on educational policy. Research demonstrates that school quality has a strong impact on individual earnings …, on the distribution of income, and on overall economic growth. In contrast to these long run factors, today's school …

to pay to reside in a community with superior schools. Controlling for neighborhood characteristics and school financial … inputs, she finds that a 5 percent increase in the average test scores of an elementary school leads to a 2.1 percent … increase in the price of houses in that school's attendance district …

School choice policies may improve productivity if parents choose well-run schools, but not if parents primarily choose …

end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of selfproductivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …